Heavy Minerals Association from Gold Placers Found on Aries River, Romania

The hydrographic basin of the Aries River covers almost an entire half of the Apuseni Mountains which contain some of the richest gold deposits in Europe that formed as a result of the Miocene volcanic activity in the Carpato-Pannonian area. The river and its tributaries carry gold and heavy minerals which the river will deposit in placers along its valley. The purpose of this study is the analysis of the high density minerals associated with the gold in order to understand the processes behind placer formation along the Aries river and see if the mineral associations could indicate the proximity of gold placers and the sources of the gold within the alluvial deposits.